Purchasing Buyer

Essential responsibilities and duties

As a commodity buyer, you will be responsible for strategic sourcing activities and supplier commercial negotiation and technical productivity material cost improvement  on those parts in the below to be used in FCE products

- Semiconductors / Electric components / module components / Mechanical components

The main missions of the role are to:

• Structure the panel
• Manage supplier selection of his/her segment/s of the commodity and deploys it within the region
• Manage relationship / negotiation with his/her suppliers supported by the Division / Region Commodity Manager
• Ensure that the strategic panel is implemented in the Development phase (Supplier Nomination Committees)
• Manage and drive productivity action plans
• Fix the rules of productivity sharing between the suppliers and Faurecia
• Manage and drive supplier quality and delivery performance
• Supplier strategic commercial and negotiation to reach annual target.

• Driving VAVE activities after mass productions.
• Collaboration with other team members in other FCE sites
• Handling of EOL (end of life), ECN (engineering change notice), PCN (prooduct change notice) after mass production

Supplier Account Manager activities

• as a part of global team (China, Thai, Europe and North America), you will be responsible for negotiation with assigned suppliers for all FCE business with them globally.

Qualifications
• Education Level Bachelor and above
• English Business Level
• Japanese Business Level

Experience:
• Minimum 5 years working experience in strategic sourcing organization or as sales person for related industry
• In depth knowledge in embedded Software contract and SOW, basic contract drafting skills both in English and Japanese
• Extensive knowledge on semiconductors / electric components / module components and related technology, manufacturing cost, industry trend

Skills and competencies:
• Analytical, problem solving, information gathering skills are must
• Strong verbal and written communication ability both in Japanese and English
• Adaptability to global setup with respect to diversity
• Self motivated, collaborative, proactive and positive attitude